Re: [SDO C++] Representing strings as objects rather than C style character pointers

[Geoffrey Winn]

On 06/06/06, Geoffrey Winn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

The more difficult case arises when a method returns a string value. For
example,

     const char* getName()

We can't overload this, so we have two alternatives.

I should have known better. There is of course at least one other way.

We could introduce a new overloaded method where the return value is one of
the parameters, for example,

void